Dynamics of Gender Relations. Process-Sociological Perspectives [Dynamiken von Geschlechterbeziehungen. Prozesssoziolgische Perspektiven]

Stefanie Ernst, Valerie Dahl, Marta Bucholc

Abstract

For the first time, this anthology brings together international research approaches from the field of figurational and processual sociology at the intersection of gender studies. Is assembles current research on the change of gender relations in formal and informal structures. By using Norbert Elias’s process-sociological oeuvre selected gender figurations in the western and non-western world are discussed. Our choice of subjects is anchored, on the one hand, in a socio-historical understanding of the trajectory of gendered societies over a wide area and range of centuries in the Process of Civilization. On the other hand, the immediate impulse for our work is the critical discussion of Elisian thinking concerning dynamic gender relations in different empirical case studies and process-theory.